📈How to Trade

Trading coins on Yoink is simple — but understanding the core mechanics will help you make smarter decisions and maximize your potential returns.

What Are Coins?

Coins are SPL tokens created on Solana, each typically tied to a real creator and their community. When you buy a coin, you're essentially betting on its potential — driven by the creator’s content quality, virality, community engagement, and overall market potential. Every trade generates fees that reward both the creator and Early Bird holders, while traders aim to earn returns through price movements and market activity.

The Bonding Curve

When you create a coin on Yoink, it’s deployed under our smart contract, which automatically generates an AMM (Automated Market Maker) powered by a bonding curve. This mechanism ensures that the token can’t be rugged or have its liquidity pulled, providing strong protection for traders.

The bonding curve manages all trading activity for both buyers and sellers through its on-chain pricing logic, keeping the token’s market value accurate and transparent. As liquidity grows along the curve, you’ll see a progress bar on each token — showing its completion from 0% to 100%.

What Happens at 100% Progress?

When a token's progress reaches 100%, it graduates to the Raydium DEX. This marks a major milestone because:

• Liquidity becomes permanently locked on Raydium

• Price discovery enters a more open and mature market

• Trading volume often increases significantly

• The token integrates fully into the broader Solana ecosystem

Graduation is a positive milestone for token holders — it ensures permanent liquidity, greater exposure, and access to a larger trading community.

Early Bird Rewards

🐦 Early Bird Benefits

The first 20 buyers of any token become Early Birds and receive ongoing benefits:

• Fee sharing from all trades on that token

• Exclusive status that can't be bought later

• Passive income as long as you hold your tokens

⚠️ Important: Once you sell your tokens, you lose Early Bird status forever.

Learn more about Early Bird rewards →

Buyback Mechanics

💰 Automatic Buyback System

Yoink features an automatic buyback system that creates price floors and supports token values:

• Trading fees accumulate in a treasury for each token

• Automatic buybacks trigger when treasury reaches certain thresholds

• Bought tokens are burned, permanently reducing supply

• Price support helps protect against major downturns

This mechanism provides downside protection while potentially increasing the value of remaining tokens through supply reduction.

Learn more about buybacks →

Slippage Control

Slippage is the difference between expected and actual trade prices. You can adjust this based on:

• Small trades: 1-3% slippage usually works

• Large trades: May need 5-10% slippage

• Low liquidity tokens: Higher slippage required

• High volume periods: Lower slippage possible